In assessing a client with a cardiac history or with cardiac symptoms, there are certain signs a nurse looks for
a. What signs or changes would you see when assessing your client?
b. How does the heart pumping ineffectively affect the lungs?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Discussion should include skin; weight; jugular veins; edema; cardiac output, which would cause the outward signs of other things listed to poor pump action; cyanosis; or gray-colored skin.
b. Discussion here includes whether it's left-sided or right-sided failure and how each affects the lungs differently. It also should discuss the signs and symptoms of the respiratory effects and what happens if left uncorrected.
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